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Is my Webroot "secure anywhere" really checking all of my files and programs in 41 seconds

  • 3 December 2016
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Hello I'm new to Webroot and I'm wondering if "secure anywhere" is really checking all of my files and programs for malware, spyware and viruses in 41 seconds????  It just seems to quick to be doing a complete job.  I have win7 on a lenovo pc. I don't know how much of my 1 terabyte space I've used up, maybe 20 to 25%.   is there other anti malware software from webroot that I should be scanning my PC with????
Please let me know
Thanks  36ag
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Best answer by Ssherjj 3 December 2016, 03:54

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Ssherjj
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Hello 36ag,
 
Welcome to the Community Forum,
 
Webroot SecureAnywhere is the first and only Full Cloud Anti-Malware very light and fast!
 
See here for more info: https://community.webroot.com/t5/Techie/Question-Is-Webroot-SecureAnywhere-a-Full-Anti-Malware-or-ju... and here: https://community.webroot.com/t5/Webroot-SecureAnywhere-Antivirus/WSA-scanning-on-access-or-on-execu... also this is great: https://community.webroot.com/t5/Webroot-SecureAnywhere-Antivirus/Scanning-PC-suspiciously-fast/m-p/...
 
 
 

 
Also please look here https://community.webroot.com/t5/Webroot-SecureAnywhere-Antivirus/How-do-I-know-that-Webroot-is-working/ta-p/191121
 
Hope this helps?
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Ssherjj
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Hi again 36ag,
 
Please have a look at this Thread here https://community.webroot.com/t5/Webroot-SecureAnywhere-Complete/scan-is-skipping-over-ROOTKIT/td-p/249641/highlight/true
 
EDITED: Look at message 13 by ProTruckDriver
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No, Webroot is checking certain files and folders which are the most likely to be infected, not the whole PC.
 
This is the real explanation of the "only 41 sec" scan; in addition ,this has nothing to do with being a cloud antivirus.
 
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This might help https://community.webroot.com/t5/Webroot-SecureAnywhere-Complete/The-difference-between-a-deep-scan-and-a-full-scan/ta-p/6476 and I'm sorry I don't know how to make a short link, but the deep scan I belive is what it's doing by default, but you can go and do a full scan manually. This should have an explanation at least to what the difference is as well. 🙂 If you need to do a full scan, open webroot UI, Click on the gear next to "PC Security" on the right, then click Custom Scan, then Full Scan, that will take a bit longer of course FYI.

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